With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty–how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. – Henry Ward Beecher